Had an eventful day Sunday, the wind did not calm down as predicted and having issues with the other plane I had brought to the field to fly I desided to fly the Decathlon. As they say if you dont learn to fly in the wind you wont get to fly a lot. I dont mind a bit of wind with my Edge as it handles it nicely but the Decathlon is new to me and its charateristics I am still learning.

Event # 1 while making a banked turn with plenty of speed the wind must have hit it just right because one wing completly stalled and the plane just headed for mother earth in a spin.... OMG..... managed to pull it out inches from the dirt only to nearly loose it again due to to much elevator and the Decathlon trying to snap. By now it was almost into the bushes and ended up setting her down hard so as to not take a trip thru the brush and down into the gully. She caught up in some briors and flipped over but only minor damage occured I bunged up one of the wheel pants and had a small bemish on one wing tip.

Several uneventful flights later, on landing a strong gust came up as I was touching down. It picked her up off the grass then blew the tail sideways. I was way to slow on the rudder and she came down still traveling in the same direction but pointed about 30 degrees to the right. OUCH. ripped the landing gear block out. Dang looks like a few nights with ply, balsa and glue comming my way.

All in all I had a great weekend of flying cant wait next weekend.